Leicester St Mary de Castro, Leicestershire, England Genealogy
Guide to Leicester St Mary de Castro, Leicestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Leicester St Mary de Castro | |
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| St Mary de Castro, Leicester | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| County | Leicestershire |
| Hundred | Guthlaxton; Leicester Borough |
| Poor Law Union | Leicester |
| Registration District | Leicester |
| Records Begin | |
| Parish registers | 1600 |
| Bishop's Transcripts | 1604 |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Christianity |
| Diocese | Peterborough |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Leicester |
| Archive | |
| Leicestershire Record Office | |
Parish History[edit | edit source]
St Mary de Castro (meaning St Mary of the Castle) is an ancient church and parish in Leicester. The old borough consisted of the parishes of All Saints, St. Leonard, St. Martin, and St. Nicholas, and part of the parishes of St.Margaret and St. Mary. [1]
The South Fields and Bromkinsthorpe were brought within the borough for Parliamentary purposes under the Boundaries Act of 1832, and for municipal purposes under the Municipal Corporations Reform Act of 1835. St. Mary's remained a civil parish within the borough until 1896,when the whole of Leicester was formed into a separate civil parish.
It dates its founding to 1107 when Henry I of England took the lands and castle from a rebellious owner and granted them instead to Robert de Beaumont, although some legends say that a Saxon church of St Mary had existed before the Norman Conquest before then and Robert merely refurbished it. Whichever, he established it within the castle bailey as a college served by a Dean and 12 Canons (that is, a collegiate church) in honour of the Virgin Mary and All Souls and as a chantry chapel for the souls of him, his family and the first three Norman kings. He endowed this and 4 other churches with £6 of his income and land in or near the city. However, these endowments were all transferred soon after by his heir to his own new foundation of Leicester Abbey, although this was made up for by an annual grant from the Earl of 20 shillings for lamps and by restoring a Dean, six Clerks and a Chaplain to the church, which was by now a parish church too and so supported by tithes and offerings.
It was rebuilt in the 1180s, and has undergone alterations since, including the addition of a spire (1400).
The collegiate nature of the church lasted until the college was disbanded in 1548 by Henry VIII.
Leicester Holy Trinity, Leicestershire Leicester St Andrew, Leicester St Paul, Leicestershire Leicester Holy Apostles, Leicestershire Leicester Church of the Martyrs, Leicestershire Leicester All Souls, Leicestershire and in 1914 Leicester St Anne, Leicestershire.
Resources[edit | edit source]
Find Neighboring Parishes[edit | edit source]
Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map
- Type the name of the parish in the search bar
- Click on the location pin on the map
- Choose Options from the pop up box
- Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes
Cemeteries[edit | edit source]
- 1700-1950 Monumental Inscriptions, Bondstreet Chapel, Leicester, Leicester, England, about 1700-1950(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- 1849-1953 England, Leicestershire, Leicester, Welford Road Cemetery Burial Registers(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- 1905-1943 England, Leicestershire, Welford Road Cemetery Registers(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Great Meeting House Monumental Inscriptions, Leicestershire, England(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Monumental Inscriptions of the Parish of St. Mary De Castro, Leicester, Leicestershire, England(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Monumental Inscriptions, of Bond St. Congregational Church, Leicester, Leicestershire, England(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- St. Mary De Castro, Leicester, Monumental Inscriptions(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- The Epitaphs in the Graveyard and Chapel of the Great Meeting, Leicester(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Monumental Inscriptions, Harvey Lane Baptist Churchyard, Leicester, Leicestershire, England(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
- Leicester Borough Burial Index(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
- See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.
Church Records[edit | edit source]
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor.
Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.
Church of England[edit | edit source]
Due to the increasing access of online records:
- Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
- Dates in the following table are approximate
Hover over the collection's title for more information
| Leicester St Mary de Castro Online Parish Records | ||||||
| FamilySearch Collections-Leicestershire | ||||||
| FamilySearch Parish Registers-Leicestershire | ||||||
| Bishop's Transcripts - FamilySearch Catalog | ||||||
| FreeREG | ||||||
| Findmypast-Leicestershire ($) | ||||||
| Findmypast Banns-Leicestershire ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry-Church of England BMD-Leicestershire ($) | ||||||
| Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($) | 1500s-1900s |
1500s-1900s |
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| Databases with Known Incomplete Parish Coverage | ||||||
| Boyd's Marriage Indexes-FMP (Free) | ||||||
| National Burial Index-FMP (Free) | ||||||
Other Websites
These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
- Joiner Marriage Index - Leicestershire ($)
- The Genealogist Parish Registers - Leicestershire ($)
- UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
- Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records
- The Record Office - Records for Leicestershire, Leicester, and Rutland
Nonconformist Records[edit | edit source]
"Nonconformist" is a term referring to religious denominations other than an established or state church. In England, the state church is the Church of England.
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast - index & images ($); coverage may vary
- England Roman Catholic Parish Marriages at Findmypast — index & images ($); coverage may vary
Census Records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See England Census for more resources.
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Leicestershire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 55-62. Date accessed: 10 September 2012.